The Meeting of the C.C. Members of the R.S.D.L.P.

May 28–June 4 (June 10–17), 1911

Letter to the Meeting of the C.C. Members
    of the R.S.D.L.P. Abroad[1]

Igorev’spiece of paper dated June 1, 1911, once again
shows the disgracefulgamebeing played around the convening of
the C.C.; that policy of delay and sabotage which the Central Organ of our
Party has been exposing for a long time, over a period of several months.

Igorev’sassertion that Yudin and

Kostrov[2]comprise a temporary Bureau or even a part of it, is out and
out lying.Over a long period of months, when Makar and

Lindov[3](after Innokenty)constitutedthe Bureau
organisation,selectedagents,arrangeda number of
visits connected with the affairs of the central organisation, organised
meetings with agents and candidates for co-option (Makar and

Katsap[4]and others, with Milyutin and others), established contact
with the general Party centre for Social-Democratic work in the Duma, and
with the city Social-Democratic circles at the time of the elections
(Moscow), etc., etc.,no suchwork was carried out either by Yudin
or Kostrov.Precisely none, absolutely none of this kind of
activity was carried out by either one of them.

Nota singleofficial body of the Party abroad (neither the
Central Organ nor the Central Committee Bureau Abroad) received asingleformal notification of the co-option of Yudin and Kostrov
to the Bureau.

Fora period ofmore than two monthsfollowing the arrest of
Makar and Lindov, not a single piece of paper, not a single letter was
received and no one heard a sound about Yudin or Kostrov regarding their
work in the Bureau. Not only were Yudin and Kostrov not recognised by
anyone as members of the Bureau (as were, without any argument, Makarand Lindov), but neither did Yudin or Kostrov ask for a kopek, and, unlike
Makar and Lindov, they did not inform the Central Committee Bureau Abroad
that they comprised the Bureau.

Insuch a state of affairs we maintain that Igorev’s reference to
Kostrov and Yudin comprising the “Bureau” is amockeryof the
Party, isdeceptionof the Party. We shall expose this deception.

Further,after the experience of Inok, Makar and others, and following
the exposure by

Olgin,[5]etc., we regard all attempts to revive the Central Committee
in Russia with the old C.C. members, elected in London,as playing
right into Stolypin’s hands. We warn the Party against those who are
angling for uninformed people, who send Central Committee members where
conditions areimpossible, who send them on jobs thatcannot
be done, straightinto the hands of the police.

Finally,as regards the “plan” to call a plenary meeting in
amonth’s time, announced in Igorev’s paper of June 1, 1911, but
of whichhe said nothingto the Central Committee Bureau Abroad,
we draw the Party’s attention to a newintrigueof the liquidators
in connection with the convening of the Central Committee.

NoCentral Committee can be convened within a month, but it is possible
to “bring together” fictitious Central Committee members—that
is the kernel of theGolosintrigue.

Sincethe Plenary Meeting,fourBolshevik members of the
Central Committee (Meshkovsky + Innokenty + Makar + Lindov) have been lostwhile engaged in the Central Committee work. The Mensheviks have
not lostone member, for not one of them has been working!!

Andso now, theGolosgroup dare to propose a period of amonthcalculating on bringing in such individuals asPyotr[6]who, for a whole year and a half (since the Plenary
Meeting) has not done asinglestroke of work, whonot
onceput in an appearance at the Bureau. TheGolosgroup know
that within a month it isnot possibleto “bring
together” Bolsheviks who are in exile either following a trial or by
administrative decision.

Theysent the Central Committee to Russia“in order that it might
be destroyed there”!

Theylived to see the day whenallthe Bolsheviks had been
arrested.

Theywere able to save all thefictitiousMenshevik members
who had been inactive.

Theywant to fix a period of one month in which ficticious Central
Committee members like Pyotr could be brought there, and Bolsheviks who
were workingcould noteven be notified!

Theyare wrong if they think that thegamethe liquidators are
playing with the convocation of a plenary meeting will not be disclosed to
the Party!

[1]Themanuscript had no heading. The heading has been provided by the
Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U.

[2]Yudin(I. L. Eisenstadt),Kostrov(N. N. Zhordaniya)—members of the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.,
Menshevik-liquidators.

[3]Makar(V. P. Nogin),Lindov(G. D. Leiteisen)—members of the C.C., R.S.D.L.P.,
Bolshevik-conciliators, arrested at the end of March 1911.

[4]Katsap—A. Polyakov.

[5]Forthe exposure by Olgin(pro-Party Menshevik, V. P. Fomin)

[6]Pyotr(N. V. Ramishvili)—member of the Central Committee of
the R.S.D.L.P., one of the leaders of the Georgian Menshevik liquidators.